Here is a story in which I am clueless about its actual age for I have seen it on two different blogs. I do know it happened. AND I do know it is something that Western readers, especially American readers need to comprehend about Islam.
The story is about Hamas the Islamic terrorist organization hosting multiple marriages of child brides (AND I DO MEAN CHILD!) to young adult Muslim men.
Ah, you say, that is merely a Middle Eastern cultural thing in which that society does not find such reprobate deeds reprehensible.
Come on friends, Leftists and Muslim apologists: the movement of Muslim organizations and Mosques in the West (even America) are funded by Wahhabist Saudi wealth or the Muslim Brotherhood directly or indirectly. Hello Westerners – These guys wish to institute Sharia Law according to the most conservative Muslims religious schools of thought. That means the Muslims in the West demanding Sharia Law zones in the West would be sanctioning Muslim child marriages.
Think of that as read this essay entitled, “HAMAS PLAYS HOST TO PEDOPHILIA.” We are talking 450 child brides age 10 or younger to 450 Muslim grooms.
ACT! For America sent out an e-newsletter on September 21. The e-newsletter is congruent with ACT! For America’s “Stop Shariah Now” campaign in America.
The information highlights a print version of an Andrew Bostom article published on September 21 in the American Thinker. ACT then proceeds to tell its readers to pay attention to the ACT highlighted areas of Bostom’s article.
Go ACT! For America! Read the highlighted version at SlantRight or go to the American Thinker to read the original the way Bostom published it.
JRH 9/23/09 ******************* Apostasy, Human Rights, and Rifqa Bary
ACT! For America E-newsletter Sent: September 21, 2009 11:32:52 AM
Andrew Bostom’s commentary below on the Islamic view of apostasy is revealing for several reasons.
First, it raises the obvious question: How can shariah Islamic law ever be regarded as compatible with Western pluralistic representative government?
Second, the highlighted sections reveal what all 57 Muslim states consider to be the appropriate relationship between shariah Islamic law and the state. There should be no misunderstanding: the Muslim states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference maintain that “human rights” are defined solely within the context of shariah law.
And third, for those in America, including those in government and law enforcement, who don’t understand why Rifqa Bary is afraid that her father will in fact have her killed for converting to Christianity, as Bostom notes, “shame” on them for ignoring this this context. It’s not as if this information is hidden from view or difficult to find.
Last week ACT! for America launched its “Stop Shariah Now!” project. To find out more about shariah law, log on to:
The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam", was drafted and subsequently ratified by all the Muslim member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Now a 57 state collective which includes every Islamic nation on earth, the OIC, currently headed by Turkey's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, thus represents the entire Muslim umma (or global community of individual Muslims), and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations (UN).
Both the preamble and concluding articles (24 and 25) make plain that the OIC's Cairo Declaration is designed to supersede Western conceptions of human rights as enunciated, for example, in the US Bill of Rights, and the UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The opening of the preamble to the Cairo Declaration repeats a Koranic injunction affirming Islamic supremacism, (Koran 3:110; "You are the best nation ever brought forth to men...you believe in Allah"), and states,
"Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which Allah made the best nation..."
"Believing that fundamental rights and universal freedoms in Islam are an integral part of the Islamic religion and that no one as a matter of principle has the right to suspend them in whole or in part or violate or ignore them in as much as they are binding divine commandments, which are contained in the Revealed Books of God and were sent through the last of His Prophets to complete the preceding divine messages thereby making their observance an act of worship and their neglect or violation an abominable sin, and accordingly every person is individually responsible -- and the Ummah collectively responsible -- for their safeguard."
In its concluding articles 24 and 25, the Cairo Declaration maintains, [article 24], "All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari'a"; and [article 25] "The Islamic Shari'a is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration."
These statements capture the indelible influence of the Islamic religious law Shari'a -- the Cairo Declaration claiming supremacy based on "divine revelation," which renders sacred and permanent the notion of inequality between the community of Allah, and the infidels. Thus we can see clearly the differences between the Cairo Declaration, which sanctions the gross inequalities inherent in the Shari'a, and its Western human rights counterparts (the US Bill of Rights; the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights), which do not refer to any specific religion or to the superiority of any group over another, and stress the absolute equality of all human beings.
"Freedom of thought... is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. With rare aberrations a pervasive recognition of this truth can be traced in our history, political and legal."
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
"Islam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion, or to atheism."
Ominously, articles 19 and 22 reiterate a principle stated elsewhere throughout the document, which clearly applies to the "punishment" of so-called "apostates" from Islam:
"[19d] There shall be no crime or punishment except as provided for in the Shari'a."
"[22a] Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari'a.
[22b] Everyone shall have the right to advocate what is right, and propagate what is good, and warn against what is wrong and evil according to the norms of Islamic Shari'a.
[22c] Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith.".
Punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in Islam's foundational texts -- both the Koran (verses such as , 4:89, and their classical exegesis by renowned Koranic commentators such as Qurtubi, Baydawi, Ibn Kathir, and Suyuti) and the hadith (i.e., collections of the putative words and deeds of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, as compiled by pious Muslim transmitters), as well as the sacred Islamic Law (the Shari'a). For example, Muhammad is reported to have said "Kill him who changes his religion," in hadith collections of both Bukhari and Abu Dawud. There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (i.e., Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi'i), as well as Shi'ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death. Averroes (d. 1198), the renowned philosopher and scholar of the natural sciences, who was also an important Maliki jurist, provided this typical Muslim legal opinion on the punishment for apostasy:
"An apostate...is to be executed by agreement in the case of a man, because of the words of the Prophet, ‘Slay those who change their din [religion]'...Asking the apostate to repent was stipulated as a condition...prior to his execution."
The contemporary (i.e., 1991) Al-Azhar (Cairo) Islamic Research Academy endorsed manual of Islamic Law, 'Umdat al-Salik (pp. 595-96) states:
"Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the worst.... When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed. In such a case, it is obligatory...to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed."
This doctrinal and historical legitimacy of Shari'a-mandated killing of apostates from Islam is affirmed by Heffening in his scholarly review for the authoritative, mainstream academic reference work, the Encyclopedia of Islam:
"In Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) , there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death...A woman, on the other hand, is imprisoned...until she again adopts Islam, ..[or] she also is put to death." [Heffening, W. "Murtadd." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs.]
As noted by historian David Littman, writing in early 1999, Adama Dieng, then a prominent Muslim Senegalese jurist, alerted the international community to the Cairo Declaration's profoundly dangerous impact. Dieng, speaking for the International Commission of Jurists and the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights at the Commission on Human Rights in February, 1992, decried the Cairo Declaration, which under the rubric of Shari'a, deliberately restricted certain fundamental freedoms and rights -- most notably, freedom of conscience. He also argued that the Cairo Declaration introduced "in the name of defense of human rights," unacceptable discrimination against non-Muslims and women, while sanctioning the legitimacy of heinous practices -- Shari'a-compliant punishments (from corporal punishments, to mutilation, and stoning) -- "which attack the integrity and dignity of the human being."
Pew Survey data published just this past August 13, 2009 reflect, starkly, the depth and prevalence of popular support among the Muslim masses for these hideous views -- sanctioned by their theo-political Islamic leadership within the OIC -- and antithetical to our foundational Western freedoms. Specifically, the Pew findings reveal that among Pakistani Muslims, there is
"...broad support for harsh punishments: 78% favor death for [apostates] those who leave Islam; 80% favor whippings and cutting off hands for crimes like theft and robbery; and 83% favor stoning adulterers."
These hard data provide a clear, irrefragable global context for any rational, objective consideration of the ongoing plight of apostates from Islam, such as 17 year-old, Rifqa Bary.
Shame on all those in our government, law enforcement, and chattering classes who willfully ignore this context.
CAIR's vision is to be a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. (Vision and Mission: Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Now doesn’t this sound awesome? The CAIR vision reads like a very tolerant American thinking organization whose central concern is sticking up for the civil rights of Muslim-Americans.
Unfortunately it is propaganda validating the wishful thinking of decent Muslims who actually believe that Islam means peace. Also the CAIR vision reads as something very American to American non-Muslims (kafir) who believe in the American principles of Freedom of Religion and social justice.
The reality is CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator with those of convicted in the Holy Land Foundation trial for laundering charitable donations into the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas. So much for the concept of “justice and mutual understanding.”
Now let’s look at Islam’s practice of tolerance, civil liberties and building coalitions that promote justice of mutual understanding.
Muslim Turkish father murders his son when he finds out the young man is a homosexual. If you read my blogs you are aware I believe homosexuality is a deviant sin; however I would never advocate death or harm to a homosexual. I would advocate my right as a business owner not to be forced to hire a person whose lifestyle I find to be repugnant.
There is no freedom of speech or the open freedom of religion in Muslim dominated nations and in the West many conclaves of Muslims have successfully instituted Sharia Law which denies civil rights to human beings.
Here is a mere small list of people who live under a death threat for their advocacy in making people aware of the negative aspects of Islam. Here is another essay demonstrating the lack of Mutual Understanding within Islam.
I could probably fill ten pages of examples of Intolerance, the non-existence of Civil Rights and the total absence of Mutual Understanding AND still not come close to exposing Islam’s negative aspects as compared to Western and (especially) American principles of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
CAIR is so hypocritical in its alleged status of moderate Islam and defender of Muslim Civil Rights. CAIR has not only been connected to Hamas legally through the HLF convictions but the organization’s founders and many of its current leadership have espoused the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is definitely not a representative of moderate Islam. Nearly all the transnational terrorist organizations of the Sunni Islam persuasion are of the Hanbali Islamic school of thought. The Hanbali school is conservative and interprets the Quran, Hadith, Sunna and so on in literal terms and consider the most extreme violence of Mohammed’s Islamic conquests and retribution as examples to be followed in the in the present time.
Muslim Brotherhood, Salafist, Wahhabi and related groups thus are Islamic reform movements seeking to enforce the return of purest Islam of the Prophet Mohammed’s day in the seventh century AD (C.E. for secular humanists).
CAIR is a part of this very non-moderate Islamic tradition regardless of CAIR allusions to the contrary.
An article by Joe Kaufman at Pajamas Media is the inspiration of my writing actually the briefest of facts about CAIR. You should probably check out the Anti-CAIR website that delves into CAIR constantly; however read Kaufman’s article about Hussam Ayloush. Ayloush is the leader of CAIR-Southern California. Evidently Ayloush sticks to the national CAIR line of being a moderate Muslim criticizing the FBI. The FBI criticism is because the Bureau wisely has cut off official team work with CAIR because of its unindicted co-conspirator connections to the HLF convicts directly sending money to Hamas.
Here is a message from ACT! For America pertaining to a new grassroots campaign to expose the evils of sharia law that is many American-Muslim groups is promoting. Following message is an article attached to bring home the idea that sharia law is evil.
JRH 6/10/09 ****************************** Qur'an quotes every woman must see
ACT! For America email Email sent: June 10, 2009 9:35 AM
In the very near future we will begin the launch of our 2009 “Stop Shariah Now” campaign. This will be an integrated grassroots, lobbying and public relations effort designed to raise public awareness and push for public policies that expose Shariah law and its infiltration into the United States.
Shariah Islamic law is infiltrating America through vehicles such as Shariah compliant finance products offered by major financial institutions, including UBS, AIG, Citibank and HSBC. It has been reported to us that members of the Muslim Students Association in southern California have been seen chanting their demands for Shariah law during public demonstrations. We have also seen reports that estimate between 50,000 and 100,000 Muslims in America are practicing polygamy, a practice allowed under Shariah law.
Recently, a report surfaced on the internet that Lisa Ashton, a flight attendant with British Midland Airways, was fired for refusing to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues while in public in Saudi Arabia. This is the consequence of Shariah law in a society and a Western nation’s effort to bend over backwards to accommodate it.
The next time you hear someone claim that Islam affords equal rights and protections to women, pull out the “Top 10” list below. You might want to add that in one of the hadith (the sayings and traditions of Mohammed), Mohammed claimed he was given a look into hell and saw that it was filled mostly with women because they were ungrateful to their husbands (Sahih Bukhari 2,18,61).
Then ACT! For America posted this article found on Infidels Are Cool.
The Clarion Fund is emailing bloggers to let them know about the premiere release of the full version of a documentary entitled, “The Third Jihad.”
The movie exposes radical Islam’s goal to eradicate America by inserting Sharia Law into the land of free and the home of the brave.
The premiere is in Washington, DC and I wish I could be there to watch. When I get the dough I will definitely by the DVD and/or see it on the big screen if the film makes its way to my urban area.
Here is the new release promotion from the Clarion Fund:
(New York, NY – May 10, 2009) The Clarion Fund announced today that it will premiere its newest documentary film, The Third Jihad, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 13, 2009. In addition to the screening, several American Muslim groups have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion where the film’s narrator, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser – a devout Muslim and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) – and its producers will speak out about the threat of radical Islam in America.
Clarion’s first documentary film, the award-winning Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, communicates the global threat posed by the radical elements of Islam. The Third Jihad shifts the focus to the growth of radical Islam on American soil via “Cultural Jihad,” the use of the democratic system to transform the American way of life from within to a society governed by Sharia Law (Islamic religious law).
“Clarion Fund recognizes the propagation of radical Islam and the promulgation of Sharia Law within our borders as a clear and present crisis affecting the Muslim American community and the American public at large,” said Peter Connors, Executive Director of Clarion. “Our educational tools and media properties will serve as a platform for the American public – including Muslims – to embrace Western liberties and speak out in a meaningful way to silence radical elements in our midst.”
Among these tools is RadicalIslam.org, the foundation of Clarion’s grassroots movement. The user-friendly website was developed to spread awareness about the threat of radical Islam in America as well as to provide practical response tools. For the launch of the film, the site has been redesigned to include up-to-the-minute updates from major news sources as well as social media-driven networking capabilities.
“We are focused on educating the American public about this eminent threat to their rights and freedoms, with the goal of bringing ‘Creeping Sharia’ to a screeching halt,” explained Raphael Shore, producer of both The Third Jihad and Obsession and the founder of Clarion. “We want to expose the true intent of radical Islam in order to secure the future of the American public at large, including its Muslim community.”
Among those organizations invited to participate in the roundtable discussion is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). However, CAIR has declined the invitation, a surprising turn of events considering the group’s usual insistence that a representative of their “mainstream Muslim” staff be present at such events to offer a “balanced perspective.” In fact, since the beginning of 2009, CAIR has requested such representation in at least three U.S. events focused on radical Islam.
“We invited CAIR and they said they wanted nothing to do with this film,” said Connors. “CAIR’s response is unfortunate, as The Clarion Fund believes that the only way to address this issue is to discuss it openly and honestly with those who agree with us and those who disagree. Then, based on that education, the American public can decide for itself.”
The Third Jihad, which is narrated by devout Muslim American Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, centers on the FBI discovery of a Grand Jihad Manifesto calling for the destruction of the U.S. and the establishment of a radical Islamist theocracy in its place. The film features interviews with experts on radical Islam and American security specialists, including leading expert professor Bernard Lewis, as well as a first-hand account from a former terrorist. All those interviewed agree that the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in America is a societal reality that cannot be ignored.
Though a shortened version of The Third Jihad has spread virally on the Internet since the beginning of the year, the Washington, D.C. screening will serve as the official launch of the feature-length version of the film. __________________________
The Clarion Fund (www.clarionfund.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to educate Americans about issues of national security. The organization focuses primarily on the emergent threat of radical Islam. To that end, Clarion produces and distributes documentary films and facilitates online education to help Americans better understand the real dangers posed by radical Islam. In addition to RadicalIslam.org, the organization’s interactive online educational and social networking tool, Clarion has a popular live-blogging presence on Twitter: @No2RadicalIslam.
I just read a crazy essay from Tunku Varadarajan writing for Forbes.com. The link to Varadarajan’s essay was from a Heritage Foundation e-newsletter that I receive (a full disclosure moment).
Varadarajan reports on the grisly and totally unjust treatment of a seventeen year old girl whose crime was pronounced as adultery.
Apparently the only evidence of adultery is that a married male was alone with the girl as the male went about perform his profession, i.e. an electrician.
As you read Varadarajan’s report, you should take some time to deeply ponder what Sharia Law could be doing as more and more Western governments validate its practice in their nations as part of the rule of law.
I discovered a LiveLeak video of Brit-Mohammedans being shouted down by the indigenous English speaking British. Now Britain has been saturated in appeasement to the point of dhimmitude by its government even allowing legal authority to Mohammedan Sharia Law courts.
Could this video be a snapshot of fed-up British voters of the future? God willing!
The news piece predicts that Pakistan will essentially implode due to the disparate interests of ruling elites.
It runs something like this: There are the traditional Pakistan elites descending from the British created Pakistan of 1947 which is a tender balance between Pakistani mullahs and the power of the military. Added to this now is the retro-radical Sharia Law espoused by the influence of the Taliban.
As the years have gone by since 1947 Independence, apparently the radical Islam of the northwest portions of Pakistan have closely akin to the radical Islam of Afghanistan which is known to us today as the Taliban.
Apparently Pakistan’s new President Zardari has signed a temporary truce with Taliban elements in Pakistan. The bargain: The Pakistan government will not interfere with the implementation of Taliban retro-radical Sharia Law in exchange with for the Taliban to not execute paramilitary Islamic terrorism in the government controlled portion of Pakistan.
Shaidle’s article reports that Salim Mansur of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC believes that Pakistan is on a path of dissolving. I am guessing that means Pakistan will divide into one or more nations.
I did find it interesting is this discussion of a Pakistan implosion that Shaidle did not mention Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The ISI is nearly a rogue agency within the Pakistani government that has at times served the civilian government and at times served the Pakistan military. This clandestine State spy agency appears to have a different agenda than that hoped for from an American ally which the USA considers Pakistan. The ISI is deeply involved in aiding radical Islamic terrorists pointed at India, Afghanistan and radical Islamic elements within Pakistan itself. This would make the ISI an enemy of the USA within the Pakistan government. This also points to a further disintegration of Pakistan in which may lead to the Pakistani government becoming an Islamic Sunni Revolutionary State comparable to the Shi’ite Revolutionary State in Iran.
I am guessing the ISI may have a clandestine agenda to get the Pakistan military on board to an Islamic State that will either unify Pakistanis under a rigid Islam if successful or the ISI working for two emerging Pakistani governments: a Palestinian military dictatorship sympathetic to Islamic terrorists and an Islamic terrorist State controlled by the Taliban or one of many Taliban-like Islamic terrorists. Since there are number of radical Islamic terrorists that are more native to Pakistan, there is also a chance that a break-away portion of Pakistan might be a government of some form of radical Islamic federation.
The question then becomes with all these scenarios, ‘What happens to the nuclear arsenal?’
Europe has become more than just post-Christian, it has become anti-Christian. I am sure there other European nations that demonstrate this anti-Christianity; however the nation I have been reading about lately is America’s old Mother-Country the United Kingdom (Great Britain, England or whatever).
It is not as if the foster care provider coerced this sixteen Mohammedan girl into Christianity. The teenager insisted on checking out the foster care giver’s religion and then converted.
Can you see what is happening here? The UK is a Western nation in which Freedom of Religion is currently a hallmark.
I suspect the problem the foster care giver faces is government fear of the Brit’s intolerant Mohammedan population rioting because one of their own became a Mohammedan apostate and a Christian convert.
In case you are unaware the Mohammedan Quran and Hadith call for an apostate to be executed. Yes friends this is also another example of Western values clashing with Sharia Law values.
Academics and Western intelligencia are labeling the days we live in as a post-Christian era. The meaning conveyed is that the haven of Christendom no longer views itself as Christian. The implication is that the West is a secular society abandoning all aspects of the Christian faith. Indeed many in the West – particularly in Europe – view Christian morality and values as archaic and mythological to a viewed reality evolving humanistic thought which is egalitarian and tolerant of all lifestyles post-Christian society deems acceptable.
Because of this Christianity is back on the footing of the early Church prior to Roman Emperor Constantine (circa 300’s A.D.). Indeed Academia has abandoned the Christian calendar of measuring time. A.D. (Anno Domini) has been renamed C.E. (Christian Era) and B.C. (Before Christ) is now B.C.E. (Before Christian Era). Anno Domini is Latin for the English “year of our Lord.” Thus you can understand why a Secular Humanist Christian rejecting Academia rejects the traditional measurement of time utilizing “A.D.”
In Europe this anti-Christian attitude is becoming ingrained into the minds of Europeans. The days of Christian persecution (thus far non-violent) have become a matter of practice in criminal and civil law in Europe. It is the nomenclature of society that if Christian faith offends it must be squelched even if it deprives a Christian Believer of Freedom of Speech. Thus Christian cannot preach Christian morality pertaining to homosexuality. Thus Christians cannot warn of the evils of the violent religion of Islam. Indeed European society has become so anti-Christian that it looks the other way when members of the Islamic religion preach violence against Jews, Christians and Western Society in general.
The irony of tolerating Islamic vitriol is that a significant amount of Muslims in Europe wish to have a double standard rule of law. This means one rule of law for indigenous and inherent Europeans and Sharia Law for Muslims.
HELLO! Sharia Law is the absolute opposite of even Secular Humanistic morality. Sharia Law calls for the snuffing out of homosexuals and retrograding civil rights of women.
For me that is incredulous! Christians are being prosecuted in Europe for standing for their Christian faith because it is particularly offensive to Muslims who view that Mohammed is the final authority of what faith should be. The very Secular Humanists that fear Christian Morality as a myth are validating Islam that is still living in a medieval mindset of violence as enforcement of belief. And Allah forbid a Christian or a Jew denigrates Islam in favor of an alternate faith. Honor for Allah must be maintained.
European government officials look the other way for this mindless Islamic attitude and prosecute people religious or non-religious that wish to maintain the culture of their heritage.
A classic example of this is the Dutch persecution of Geert Wilders for producing his movie “Fitna.” Fitna is a movie short documentary utilizing imagery of present day Islamic influenced atrocities and matching them with Mohammedan scriptures of the Quran. Evidently exposing the truth is incitement and hate-speech according to the Dutch government and Muslims in general. Not to mention the so-called Religion of Peace has threatened Geert Wilders’ life for this truthful portrayal of Islam.
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) provides other recent examples of persecution of Christians in Europe. The CADC warns that anti-Christian mentality is taking root in America. Christians in America can choose to sit on their laurels and await vilification or do something the American Left and Muslim-American organizations would fear; i.e. become active politically and socially in standing up for your Christian faith before it becomes illegal to do so. JRH 2/5/09 _____________________ SlantRight Editor: In case the SlantRight.com archive is ever removed here is the complete post as viewed there:
Coming to America! Silence of Christ’s Lambs
When trying to predict where America is going, often all you have to do
is look across the pond at “post-Christian” Western Europe. America is
typically a decade or two behind them on social issues, that is, unless
we act now.
Stories are coming in from Europe of Christians being fired from their
workplace or who are intimidated to be silent. If one dares to extend
Christian concern or act in a way faithful to their religious
convictions they will pay with their job.
Praying Nurse Disciplined
A nurse in Britain, Caroline Petrie, was suspended after she simply
asked a patient if they would like prayer. The patient refused and later
reported Petrie. The patient said that she was not offended by the
offer, but she reported Nurse Petrie because she was afraid someone else
might be offended. So Petrie has been ordered to attend disciplinary
meetings because someone might be offended.
Previously Petrie was forced to stop giving out Christian prayer cards
to patients who asked for them because the relative of a patient
objected. As a result, Petrie had to take an equality and diversity
course.
Petrie said, "My concern is for the person as a whole, not just their
health. I was told not to force my faith on anyone but I could respond
if patients themselves brought up the subject [of religion]."
Counselor Conflicted
Another Brit, Gary McFarlane, a counselor for Relate Avon Corporation,
was dismissed from his job because he expressed concern over the
possibility of having to give sexual advice to homosexual couples.
MacFarlane never refused to counsel a same-sex couple. He only expressed
concern at the possibility because of a conflict between his Christian
faith and homosexuality.
McFarlane believed that it was due to his Christian faith that he was
fired from Relate Avon. "If I were a Muslim, this would not have
happened. But Christians seem to have fewer and fewer rights," McFarlane
said.
A British employment tribunal has ruled in favor of a McFarlane, but
said that “The claimant was not treated as he was because of his
Christian faith, but because (the company) believed that he would not
comply with its policies.”
Minister Muzzled
A minister and radio talk show host is taking legal action after he
allegedly was fired for offending Muslims by defending Christianity on
air.
Rev. Mahboob Masih, a minister in the Church of England, claims he was
unfairly dismissed from his position of host of a radio program in
Glasgow. The action taken against him, Rev. Masih claims, was a case of
religious discrimination.
After a lively religious debate about a prominent Muslim, who, according
to Rev. Masih, belittled Christ, the radio station management accused
Rev. Masih of not being balanced enough on air.
Rev. Masih reluctantly made an on-air apology in an attempt to defuse
the situation, but refused to comply with a request from a senior
station official to deliver an apology in person at the Central Mosque
in Glasgow. Now he is appealing to the decision to fire him to the labor
board.
No Place for Faith at BBC
Another radio talk show host in England, Jeremy Vine, is a Christian and
believes that Christ is who he says he is, but doesn’t think he could
say it on his BBC show.
The Radio 2 host says society is becoming increasingly intolerant of
Christian views. It has become “almost socially unacceptable to say you
believe in God.”
Mr. Vine is a practicing Anglican, but does not discuss his faith on
air. “One of the things that I think, which may sound bizarre, is that
Christ is who he said he was,” he said. “I don’t think I’d put that out
on my show; I suppose there’s a bit of a firewall between thinking that
and doing the job I do.”
The BBC did a self audit in 2007 and determined that there is an institutional anti-Christian bias.
This is only a snap shot of what will come in America if we continue to
allow our first amendment liberties to be undermined by hate crime
legislation and stand idly by while Christian discrimination goes
unopposed.
TAKE ACTION:
Sign our petition to stop American hate crimes legislation. Rep. Sheila
Jackson-Lee introduced a new hate crime legislation, The David Ray Hate
Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, H.R. 256, which is direct opposition to
our Constitution. She also submitted a new companion bill, The David Ray
Ritcheson Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, H.R. 262. These two
bills directly threaten your freedom of speech and religion.
Have you seen the movie short entitled Fitna? Well if you have not you should. The movie is an expression of Freedom of Speech put together by Geert Wilders.
The Netherlands justice system has decided to prosecute Wilders for this free speech because to criticize the ideology of Islam in a politically correct egalitarian society is a hate crime.
The irony is Wilders uses actual Quranic scriptures and matches them up with present day atrocities committed by Muslims who in reality are merely practicing what there Prophet Mohammed did by example.
Someone in the Dutch legal system has been talked into believing this is offensive to Islam.
So let us consider why this would be offensive to Muslims.
Are Muslims embarrassed about their Prophet who disseminated the word that became the Quran? That cannot be for then that would deny there faith.
Are Muslims offended because fellow Muslims deemed radical by the West are practicing the example of Mohammed by killing innocent men, women and children kafir (unbelievers) in an effort to strike fear and terror to convert Kafir to Islam or merely to kill kafir? If Muslims are offended by the murder of kafir a huge majority are not denouncing the terror.
Are Muslims offended because Fitna demonstrates Islam to be an archaic religion based on violent conquest that is evil by today’s standards? I am certain people who feel they have attained inner peace and fulfillment are extremely adverse to the concept their faith is violent; nonetheless to be a true follower of Islam is to believe the Prophet Mohammed and the Quran are infallible. That center piece of Mohammedan faith renders the practicing of peace Islam as a denial to the example of Mohammed and the Quran (not to mention the Hadith, the Sunna and so on).
Now let us consider why Secularists, atheists and people practicing a different religion other than Islam should be offended Islam.
Should kafir (unbelievers of Islam) be offended at Muslims who practice a faith that brings inner peace and fulfillment to their lives? That should ring a definite NO.
Should the kafir be offended about the way women are treated in Islam (believing and non-believing)? This is a definite YES. Islamic women at best are treated as inferior to their husbands or father. Islamic women at worst are treated as chattel or sex slaves diminishing their human rights and denigrating their humanity. It should be amazing to the kafir that a majority of Muslim women are in total acceptance of the Quranic position of women. They buy into the lie that the burka syndrome places women on a pedestal of purity and respect while being in denial of the position women lead in a Quranic-Sharia Law society. Honor killings have been on the rise in Western societies because younger Muslim women are assimilating some of the ways of Western liberty.
If you don’t know it, Sharia Law is one of the great evils developed by mankind to successfully keep practioners of Islam to tow the Islamic way and to viciously discriminate against non-Muslims (AKA kafir).
As for Muslims, Sharia Law also utilizes harsh punishments for breaking Islamic cultural mores such as leaving Islam, reducing women to chattel or sex-slaves, death for moral deviancy such as homosexuality, death to women victim’s of rape, (in Middle Easter areas) the loss of human appendages for theft, honor killings (primarily of women) if an action (such as dating a kafir) dishonors the Muslim family and on and on.
The Act for America email I received is a write up on a Damian Thompson blog entry of Britain’s Telegraph. Mr. Thompson’s title, “Exclusive: over 60 per cent of Britain's Muslim schools have extremist links, says draft report.”
Can you imagine that? Sixty percent of Britain’s private Islamic schools have “extremist links.” Since we live in a PC world let us be plain as to whom “extremist” refers to.
The “extremists” are Islamic terrorists from the Middle East, Islamic dominated nations and/or extreme Muslims within the West.
That should shed some clarity on the PC reference of “extremist.”
Basically here is the warning from Act for America: What happens in English speaking Britain in a cultural or legal framework oft times makes it’s way across the Atlantic Ocean to America. That being said – my fellow Americans – you should wonder how many private Islamic/Mohammedan schools (or even public schools with an Arabic/Muslim culture) has ties to Islamic extremism both here and abroad.
Here is the Act for America email:
60% of UK's Muslim schools linked to 'extremists'
Act for America Email Sent: December 29, 2008 9:32:32 AM
Dear …,
We frequently refer you to what is happening in Great Britain because there we have a road map of what is coming to the United States, if we fail to act or choose to act as Great Britain has acted over the past 30 years. Seldom in life do we get the opportunity to see so clearly what does not work so that we can avoid replicating what does not work.
The bottom line is that Britain’s approach to dealing with the threat of radical Islam, no matter how well-intentioned, is proving to be an abject failure. Britain’s politically correct attempts to appease and accommodate Islamic militancy, in the hopes of mitigating radicalism and terrorism, are not only failing to mitigate those threats, they are accelerating them.
For instance, two different polls released over the past few years reveal that Britain’s Muslim population is increasingly clamoring for the imposition of Shariah law – which is now officially recognized in numerous cities across the country. These polls also reveal that second-generation Muslims, the children of the immigrants who came to Britain, are likely to be more radical than their parents.
The latest evidence of the failure of Britain’s approach is revealed in the commentary below.
As dangerous as Islamic terrorism is, to focus on that threat to the exclusion of the many ways that “cultural jihad” is being advanced in the West and here in America, is in itself dangerous. What will America be like in 30 years if we have 2,000 Islamic schools and madrassas in this country, a majority of which have links to extremists, teach extremist doctrines, and isolate their students from the world at large?
This is what the chilling study referred to below has found in Britain. This is cultural jihad at work. We are watching the transformation of Britain take place before our very eyes.
If we fail to act…or if we choose to act as Britain has…we are next.
Rest assured ACT! for America will do everything we can to ensure that doesn’t happen.
Do God in Heaven! Do Americans want Extremist Muslims teaching the American-Muslim population to hate America, the U.S. Constitution and Judaism? Think long and hard before you think this is a freedom of religion issue. This is an issue of Muslim Supremacists utilizing American laws to warp an exclusivity right for a specific religion (or as I prefer – Theo-political death cult).
Here is a response by Gary H. Johnson, Jr. pertaining to Islam’s Shariah Finance and Act for America’s campaign to illuminate Americans about the heinous practices of Sharia Law of which Shariah Finance as an offshoot.
Johnson’s response is practical and critical of the methods of Act for America and believes Shariah Finance is a non-preventable emergence in Western markets and banks.
I get the impression that Johnson is no fan of Islam however my impression those organizations like Act for America and bloggers such as myself are among the fringe that will be used as propaganda to benefit radical Islamic organizations in America such as CAIR and a whole host of similar Islamic-American organizations.
Mr. Johnson may have a point; however I still believe extreme light must be shed on the practices of Islam to educate at the very least non-Muslims of the true nature of Islam.
Act for America has sent one of their email alerts warning that a major insurance company in America is utilizing Shariah Compliant Finance principles in their services.
Act for America Email Sent: December 4, 2008 10:56:21 AM
The article below ran on December 2nd in the online “Insurance Journal,” and illustrates how Shariah-compliant finance is establishing a foothold in American financial and insurance markets. As we all know, AIG is the recipient of a massive government bailout (translation: our tax dollars).
Take special note of the shariah-compliant supervisory board. Muhammed Imran Usmani is the son and disciple of Muhammed Taki Usmani. The elder Usmani is a “who’s who” in the Islamist world and an outspoken proponent of aggressive jihad. For example, he has issued numerous fatwas (religious rulings) that provide material support for terrorism.
The danger of American financial institutions getting in bed with well-known advocates of jihad and terrorism should be obvious to anyone who takes even a cursory look. It was Lenin who stated “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” In their thirst for capital and profits, the same corporate geniuses who gave us the sub-prime meltdown are going Lenin one better. At least the capitalists in Lenin’s day didn’t put him on their advisory boards and give him control over where money can be invested.
So as we connect the dots we see that (1) our tax dollars are being used to bail out a huge insurance conglomerate that (2) is now offering shariah-compliant insurance that (3) is under the direction of an advisory board that includes the son and disciple of one of the world’s leading advocates of Islamic terrorism. In 2009 we are going to need the help of every one of our members to start putting the brakes on this insanity.
Here is a video produced by Act for America explaining the evils of Sharia Finance. Sharia Finance is the deceptive way pro-Islamists and Islamists utilize international funding under the radar of traditional Western Financial practices.
I should note there is plug for dough since Act for America is largely donator supported. It takes money to educate Americans and apparently government officials about the dangers of Sharia Finance infiltrating the Western and American Financial system.
Act for America sent an email yesterday with a September 7 link to a reformist minded Muslim by the name of Dr. Sami Alrabaa. The link is to Europe News and the article is entitled “Islam is a Violent ‘Faith’”.
Dr. Alrabaa appears to be a Muslim devoted to his faith yet embarrassed about the violent nature of Islam as represented in the Quran and the Hadith.
The House of Saud is committed in spreading Wahhabi teaching through the entire globe using oil wealth to facilitate Wahhabi education and the building of Mosques both in the Mohammedan Middle East and in the West. Wahhabism is the foundation of the murdering Islamic terrorists such as al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas and related Islamic/Islamist violent groups. You can guess that Wahhabism is very influential among Mohammedans due to the oil money of the Saudis used to propagate the death cult globally. Reliable sources put at 80% of Mosques in America are Wahhabi supported or funded. Check out this quote from testimony given before the U.S. Senate in 2003:
At the present time, Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslim community leaders estimate that 80 percent of American mosques are under Wahhabi control. This does not mean 80 percent of American Muslims support Wahhabism, although the main Wahhabi ideological agency in America, the so-called Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has claimed that some 70 percent of American Muslims want Wahhabi teaching in their mosques.1This is a claim we consider unfounded. (Steven Schwartz)
If this was so in 2003, consider or imagine the teaching of Mohammedanism in America today. This would mean organizations such as and similar to CAIR that claim they represent the majority of Muslim/Americans are not as moderate and peaceful as they would have you believe.
The House of Saud, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia is of the Sunnis. Sunnis represent roughly 90% (Let’s say 85% to 90% depending who you read) of those that call themselves Muslims (Mohammedans). The Shia sect represents roughly the other 10% (and of the Shias the West could view that as splintered as well). Of the Shia sects the largest appears to be the Twelvers or Jaafaris (same sect different names). The Twelvers can be seen in the Ayatollahs of Iran. The Ayatollahs appear to me to be as repressive and violent as the Wahhabi Sunnis.
I pray OIL is the only reason that the American government has cultivated a friendly alliance with Saudi Arabia. Even though the Saudi government may express American appreciation to the West publically, its political infrastructure continuously denounces American democracy and society.
Transnational politics regardless of culture or dominant faith is as Machiavellian (Long thoughts and short definition) today as it ever has been. The Machiavellianism may be more sophisticated; however politics is still the means justify the ends as a methodology to plan the ends.
Now that you read this far let me go out on a limb to summarize Saudi Arabia:
The Saudi nation/Monarchy is a repressive despotic government which uses violent Wahhabi Sharia Law as the essence of its rule of law.
Saudi adjudicated crimes may be judged as capital or maiming decisions. Saudi considered crimes in America may not even be a crime or if it is the punishment would probably be minimal especially for first time offenders.
RIYADH - A top Saudi cleric and judge sought Sunday to tone down a controversial religious edict sanctioning the killing of owners of television stations that air "debauchery," saying they could only be put to death after a judicial process.
If the owners of television networks that air "depravation and debauchery" are not deterred by lesser punishments, they would be referred to justice which issues its rulings in keeping with the laws in force in the kingdom, Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan told state-run Saudi television.
"They may be killed through a judicial (ruling)," he added.
Luhaidan, who heads the Supreme Judicial Council, the highest judicial body in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, sparked controversy by saying on the radio that the owners of television networks broadcasting "immoral" programmes may be killed.
But: Define "immoral." I Love Lucy? Little House on the Prairie? CBS Evening News with Katie Couric?
It is lawful to kill... the apostles of depravation... if their evil cannot be easily removed through simple sanctions," Luhaidan said, according to excerpts of the remarks broadcast on Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite television on Friday.
Luhaidan acknowledged on Sunday that his remarks had caused an outcry, but put that down to what he said was a wrong interpretation of his views, insisting he had said that death would be through a judicial process.
Saudi Arabia applies a rigorous doctrine of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, and its Islamic courts hand down death sentences for a series of offences including murder, rape and drug trafficking.
The oil-rich kingdom's grand mufti recently issued a fatwa, or religious edict, describing a highly popular television soapas "un-Islamic," but Luhaidan's remarks went further than any made by hardline clerics against entertainment programmes seen as immoral.
This is the kind of teaching that is being financed by oil rich Saudi Wahhabists in Muslim-American Mosques.
Does Freedom of Religion mean that Americans look the other way while such violent laws are promoted in 70% of Muslim-American Mosques?
Wahhabism may not be the dominant form of Mohammedanism globally but it has the money and the influence.
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